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Death Penalty Puts Undue Strain on Justice System

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That's the title of an OpEd in today's Denver Post by Mary Dodge, an associate professor of public affairs at the Univeristy of Colorado, Denver.  LINK  Here's a lengthy excerpt:Admittedly, Nathan Dunlap deserved to receive the death penalty. In 1993, Dunlap, with extreme indifference toward human life, entered an Aurora Chuck E. Cheese restaurant and murdered four employees and attempted to kill another. Given the circumstances of the crime, his criminal history, and the widespread public outrage that surrounded the case, even the most adamant anti-death penalty advocates may reluctantly concede that the sentencing decision was a just outcome. Oddly, and in stark contrast to the hue and cry for his execution, the intricacies of the Dunlap case help support the proposed legislation to abolish the death penalty in Colorado...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 23, 2009 (boomark / email).